1000 Classical Characters Briefly Described

Who was Iphigenia? What did Cincinnatus do? A thousand gods, heroes and tyrants of the classical world, each explained in the time it takes to read a text message.

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Pantheon

A celebrated temple at Rome, built by Agrippa in the reign of Augustus, and dedicated to all the gods.

Parcae (The Fates). Powerful goddesses who presided over the birth and life of mankind.

They were three in number, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, daughters of Nox and Erebus, according to Hesiod, or, according to what he says in another place, of Jupiter and Themis.

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